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Being a part of your literary community means offering more than just great books. Mysterious Galaxy is committed to regular in-store events with authors, book discussion groups, and other special events and celebrations.
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 4:00pm
Mysterious Galaxy looks forward to seeing readers and authors Kelley Armstrong and Melissa Marr, Terry Brooks,Peter David, Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne, Leanna Renee Hieber, C.J. Hill, Gini Koch, Tom Leveen, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Shannon Messenger, Mike Mignola,Alexandra Monir, Joseph Nassise, Kris Neri, James A. Owens, Aprilynne Pike, Cherie Priest, Melanie Rawn, Adam Rex, Marsheila Rockwell, Brandon Sanderson, John Scalzi, Janni Lee Simner, Shawn Speakman, Michael Stackpole, David Lee Summers, Sam Sykes, Greg van Eekhout, Suzanne Young, Timothy Zahn and more. Mysterious Galaxy will be in booth #2411.
Please check the con's website for more information.
Bloodfire Quest: The Dark Legacy of Shannara (Hardcover)
$28.00
ISBN-13: 9780345523501Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Del Rey, 3/2013
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 7:00pm
The San Diego Book Discussion Group is led by Fearless Leader Christine. The May 23rd discussion focuses on Lauren Beukes' Zoo City. Participation is open to all readers; readers need not have completed a particular book to attend – it’s the perfect opportunity for readers to branch out and find new favorites!
Don't forget, attendees receive 20% off the current group selection!
Zoo City (Paperback)
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780857662163Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Angry Robot, 6/2011
Zinzi has a talent for finding lost things. Being hired by famously reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum of the criminal underclass. Set in a re-imagined Johannesburg, the author mixes refugees, crime, the music industry, African magic and the nature of sin together.
Sat, 05/25/2013 - 12:00pm
Save the last few trees on earth! Please join us for an exciting event at Rob leads us in an exploration of Chris Howard's Rootless, a YA science fiction novel about a world without trees. There will be exciting activities and games for all.
Don't forget, attendees receive 20% off the current group selection!
Rootless (Hardcover)
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780545387897Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scholastic Inc., 11/2012
In a devastated world where plants no longer grow, 17-year-old Banyan is a Tree Builder, creating metal forests for the elite. However, all that changes when Banyan meets a girl with a strange tattoo that contains the key to a priceless treasure the last trees on the planet.
Sat, 05/25/2013 - 2:00pm
Author and game designer (Game Design Lead at the Institute of Play’s GlassLab) and insightful industry blogger Erin Hoffman returns to her native San Diego for the third and final volume in the Chaos Knight trilogy. The choices made by Vidarian Rulorat in the two previous volumes, including reawakening wild magic and gods in his world of Andovar, have drawn serious negative attention from the Alorean Import Company. In Shield of Sea and Space, Vidarian and his allies strive to guarantee a future that includes them, as the company seeks to exterminate them.
Shield of Sea and Space (Paperback)
$18.00
ISBN-13: 9781616147693Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Pyr, 5/2013
Description
Vidarian Rulorat, called the Tesseract, a powerful magic-user whose abilities spread across multiple elements, finds himself at war with the Alorean Import Company, a powerful cabal of merchants wealthy enough to buy nations. By opening the gate between worlds, Vidarian released the Starhunter, goddess of chaos. With her coming, wild magic returned to the world of Andovar, bringing with it shape- changers and strange awakened elemental technologies, including many-sailed ships powered by air magic, and mechanical automata lit from within by earth and fire. Now, Vidarian discovers that the Alorean Import Company is determined to eliminate two- thirds of this new life on Andovar in the hopes of hoarding more magic for themselves in a new, worldwide plutocracy. Along with his human, gryphon, and shapechanger allies, he must stop the Company if he is to safeguard any future for the diverse life of Andovar, including his and Ariadel's newborn daughter. With the existence of whole species hanging in the balance, Vidarian is locked in a race for the future of the world.
About the Author
Erin Hoffman is a decade-plus veteran of online game design and the author of the Chaos Knight fantasy series from Pyr Books.
Sat, 05/25/2013 - 2:30pm
Bring your questions and
your notebooks as Dennis Palumbo answers questions in this informal writer’s
workshop, Taking the Mystery Out of Writing Mysteries. Dennis, a
licensed psychotherapist and former Hollywood screenwriter, will also be
signing and discussing Night Terrors, the third entry into the Daniel
Rinaldi Mystery series.
"Palumbo, an award-winning Hollywood screenwriter turned psychotherapist, uses all his
professional experience to craft short, action- and tension-filled chapters and
insightful sketches of people traumatized by violence." --- BookList
Night Terrors: A Daniel Rinaldi Mystery (Hardcover)
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781464201295Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Poisoned Pen Press, 5/2013
"This debut novel from psychotherapist Palumbo features a psychologist, Daniel Rinaldi, whose client, a college student, is murdered. But here's the twist: the victim, for therapeutic reasons, has lately been imitating Rinaldi's appearance and manner of dress. So naturally Rinaldi believes that he, and not his client, was the intended victim. Wracked with guilt over the incident--he believes his encouragement of the victim's behavior got him killed--Rinaldi sets out to find the killer. Palumbo, a screenwriter with credits as varied as Welcome Back, Kotter and the classic film My Favorite Year, does an excellent job of building suspense, and Rinaldi, who comes off as likable if a bit self-absorbed, makes a complex
protagonist. A solid first novel, especially recommendable to fans of Jonathan Kellerman, Keith Ablow, and Meg Gardiner."
protagonist. A solid first novel, especially recommendable to fans of Jonathan Kellerman, Keith Ablow, and Meg Gardiner."
Sun, 05/26/2013 - 8:00pm
Seth Harwood
Joe Clifford
Dan O'Shea
Tom Pitts
Join
four extraordinary crime writers from far and wide (well, three
from San Francisco, but still). Featured readings from Seth Harwood
(Jack Wakes Up, Young Junius) Dan O'Shea (his debut novel Penance) Joe
Clifford (Wake the Undertaker, Junkie Love) and Tom Pitts (Piggyback)
Also check the Mandrake website for information.
In Broad Daylight (Paperback)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781611099720Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Thomas & Mercer, 5/2013
At the outset of this diverting crime thriller from Harwood (Jack Wakes Up), FBI agent Jess Harding travels from San Francisco to Anchorage, Alaska, to investigate the murder of law clerk Samantha Parker, a U.S. senator's daughter. All signs indicate that Parker's death has the trademark of a serial killer whom Harding chased five years earlier. Harding's hunt brings her to an isolated community of Russian Old Believers ("an old sect of the Russian Orthodoxy that split from the main strand in the seventeenth century"), who are displeased and distrustful, to say the least, when her questions wrench them out of their insular way of life. In the bewildering Alaskan wilderness, Harding has to rely on her colleague Oscar Linstrom, whose intentions, romantic or otherwise, are unclear. While the secrecy and remoteness of the bewitching Russian Old Believer community overshadows the mystery of the serial killer's identity at times, readers will enjoy the ride through the land of the endless sun.
Mon, 05/27/2013 - 10:00am
Both locations will be open on Memorial Day from 10AM to 5PM.
Thank you to all who serve and have served.
Tue, 05/28/2013 - 10:00am
A selection of books that go on sale this week, most on Tuesday May 28th.
Check with staff if you have questions. You can also purchase many of the below in eBook format. Just click the title to see if an eBook is available for that title. (Thanks to Kobo, most ebooks are now available for pre-sale.)
Happy Reading!
Signed titles may arrive later in the month. Contact the staff to reserve a copy.
Echoes of My Soul (Hardcover)
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780758285355Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Kensington Publishing Corporation, 5/2013
Come meet Robert Tanenbaum in Redondo Beach on June 1st!
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 11:00am
Cara Black
Denise Hamilton
Cara Black, author of Murder Below Montparnasse, and Denise Hamilton, author of Damage Control, appear offsite at the Fairbanks Ranch Country Club in Rancho Santa Fe.
Details to follow.
Murder Below Montparnasse (Hardcover)
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9781616952150Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Soho Crime, 3/2013
Description
A possibly priceless long-lost Modigliani portrait, a grieving brother's blood vendetta, a Soviet secret that's been buried for 80 years--Parisian private investigator Aimee Leduc's current case is her most exciting one yet.
About the Author
Cara Black is the author of thirteen books in the bestselling Aimee Leduc series. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son and visits Paris frequently.
Sat, 06/01/2013 - 10:30am
Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are all free, easy to learn, and your customers and potential customers are already really big fans! In this 90 minute course, award winning social media strategist Marina Martinez goes over the basics of how to build a successful social media strategy to keep in touch with the people who already love what you do, and to make new connections online that will translate into brand loyalty and an increase in profits.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
In Social Media for Business, established businesspeople as well as aspiring
entrepreneurs will learn
how to get the most out of the web. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the like
are increasingly
becoming a source of free advertising and brand building online. These sites
are free to use and can
greatly increase your market share.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR STUDENTS:
If you have specific social media questions, it’s good to write them down ahead
of time. I will answer
questions during and after class.
COURSE CONTENT:
1. Initial questions and getting to know the participants
2. Social media 101: how to start a conversation, who to target, who to answer,
what to say
3. Sample campaigns: announcements, discounts, trivia, and live
tweeting/blogging/streaming
4. Customer service through social media and how to deal with trolls
5. Final questions and discussion – break early if there are no lively
discussions
